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Bourbon quotes

  • Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

    - (Lula) Carson ne  e Smith McCullers
      Clock Without Hands.

  • La famille des Bourbons est un poignard que l'e  tranger en1814 a laisse   dans le c½ur de la France: changez le manche comme il vous plaira, dorez la lame si vous voulez, le poignard reste poignard. The Bourbon family is a dagger whichthe foreigner left in the heart of France in1814: changethe haft if you please, gild the blade if you will, the dagger remains a dagger.

    - Edgar Quinet
      ¼uvres, vol.3, p.267.

  • Idon't much care for your law, but, bygolly, this bourbon isgood.

    - Harry S Truman
    To US Supreme Court JusticeWilliam O Douglas. Attributed.

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